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...landings in Havana within eight days. So far, nobody has been hurt-mainly because airline crews are carefully briefed for such an emergency. Pilots carry maps of Havana's Jose Marti Airport just in case, and stewardesses are instructed not to argue with would-be hijackers-simply to obey their orders. But nobody has yet thought to brief the poor passengers. The following orders might well be added to the "Important Information" cards commonly stuffed into the seat pockets of airliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: What to Do When The Hijacker Comes | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...keep a state's witness alive and soon finds himself wallowing in other people's blood. A colleague is shotgunned down, a witness ice-picked, a blonde garroted. These are only his minor problems. A self-aggrandizing official (Robert Vaughn) wants Bullitt "castrated" because he fails to obey orders the way his cowardly superiors do. Bullitt's girl (Jacqueline Bisset) says that he's "living in a sewer" and finds him so cool in the presence of death that it makes her frigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Cop Art | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...federals, who have reported him dead at least five times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders. "You rotten bastards!" he roars, when things go wrong. "You bloody, treacherous morons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Kinneary said people who deal in marijuana and obey the law by paying the tax are subject to having their names published in a list made available to prosecutors...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: High Court Will Consider Law on Sale of Marijuana | 10/22/1968 | See Source »

...authorizes $7.3 billion in federal aid to private and public universities through 1971. Under the so-called "anti-riot" amendment, students who fail to obey a lawful order of university authorities or are convicted of a crime involving seizure of university property will lose federal aid for two years, if a university hearing finds the offense "contributed to substantial disruption of an institution's administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIOT BILL SIGNED | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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